1950 - 2000 is a period of rising productivity, improving management and corporate governance, technological innovation and falling barriers to international trade and investment. (cxoadvisory.com)
The truth is that not enough of the reward from rising productivity found its way into the wage packets of average earners. (politics.co.uk)
Rising productivity in manufacturing also led to widespread industrialization, which attracted labour from farms to higher - paying factory jobs. (bankofcanada.ca)